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several times Thursday. An autopsy was planned Friday.
• Police say the man who allegedly stabbed her, 30-year-old Michael Young of Rapid City, is hospitalized in critical condition. He was arrested Thursday after being found barricaded in a bathroom at a nearby hotel with what police said were self-inflicted stab wounds.
• Police did not immediately say if Myers and Young knew one another.
• A Walmart spokeswoman told the Rapid City Journal that Myers had worked at the store for about seven years.
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Widow of civil rights activist wants him home
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their fight against social injustice, he excitedly called his wife back home and told her, "This could be the spark that lights the prairie fire."
• "No, it's not. Come home. Please come home," his wife, Cheryl Buswell-Robinson, recalled begging of him.
• The black activist and follower of Martin Luther King Jr. never made it home to Bogue Chitto, Ala. He was declared dead, but his body never was found and little is known about what happened. Not knowing has haunted Buswell-Robinson and the couple's three children for nearly 40 years.
• The United States government handles investigations on reservations. Minnea

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